FASHION TRENDS

FHM

• Make your mum an amazing meal for mother's day!
  Scrambled duck eggs with crispy bacon and watercress
  
  
  
• Recipe: Spicy mutton pie
  Make sheep taste good
  
  
  
• Run 42 flights of stairs for charity... we did it
  Watch us run Tower 42. Then do it yourselves...
  
  
  
• Polo is a warrior's sport... literally
  We chat to Jack Kidd - polo king
  
  
  
• FHM Goes To War – part one
  FHM is going to Afghanistan – come join us
  
  
  
• Get superhero fit, easily, with FHM
  Let’s keep it simple and easy, like eating a cake
  
  
  
• Two hundred years of balls
  Mitre re issue a range of classic footballs
  
  
  
• FHM fights a lady in MMA
  ...and learns a very painful lesson about fighting girls
  
  
  
• James Milner kicks footballs at FHM
  The Aston Villa and England player hates our guts
  
  
  
• Wayne Rooney interview: Euro 2004
  "I like to have a bit of aggression"
  
  
  

MENS FLAIR

• And The Oscar Goes To…
  Of all the events about which there is much ballyhoo and hullabaloo, the Academy Awards really takes the biscuit. 41 million people tuned in this year, equivalent to the population of Argentina. For an event that has so little bearing on the lives of those watching, it is certainly extraordinary; film industry back-slapping and back-handing [...]
• Fishy And Polo: A Picture Update
  I haven’t been good at posting pictures recently, so here’s an attempt to make up for it. Here we have images of the polo coat that has been documented in detail over the past few months, but of which I never posted a final image, and of the ‘fishy’ suit I commissioned most recently from [...]
• On My Soap Box
  Thanks to a spot on article in this week’s London Evening Standard I’ve joined a couple of protest groups. For the many readers who live outside London, you might not be familiar with the area known as Portobello. The largest open air antiques market in the world, for the sartorially inclined it is a treasure-trove of [...]
• A Jewel In Vienna: Wilhelm Jungmann Und Neffe
  A recent trip to Vienna for a Central & Eastern Europe Finance Forum (don’t ask) was enlivened by the discovery of Wilhelm Jungmann und Neffe. A men’s outfitter of the first order, it has been supplying accessories, cloth and tailoring services to central European gentlemen for over 125 years. I didn’t hold out much hope when [...]
• Commonscents
  It’s funny the things you suddenly realise you don’t know. As I made clear on Bespokeme this week, I’m on the hunt for new scents, having tired slightly of my current signature. The one thing I have learned is that it’s a whole other world out there, with its blogging enthusiasts as passionate and as [...]
• A World Of Imagination Adjusted
  One of my joyous memories of childhood is the extent to which I exercised, and was encouraged to employ, my imagination. Imagination was always my friend in solitude, a make-believe sunshine on a rainy day. Unfortunately, my rebellious teenage years corrupted the fantasy and my early twenties were years void of invention. Now, in my [...]
• Searching For Quality Pants at Daffy’s, NYC
  While in New York on a business trip, I decided to search for the much hyped Incotex and Mabitex pants to add to my business and casual wardrobe.  For those unfamiliar with these brands, there is plenty of discussion in these pages as well as the internet fora.  The mecca for the aforementioned trousers is [...]
• Brand Review: Devonport
  Who, where or what, you cry, is Devonport? Until a couple of weeks ago, I hadn’t the foggiest idea either. Google searches for ‘Devonport’ assist little. In fact, when you search for ‘Devonport clothing’ most of the results yielded are connected with New Zealand. So it transpired that I, sat in the smart waffle carpeted, [...]
• The Week Ahead: North Sea Clothing
  One of the tasks on my agenda this week is to score an interview with Neill Starr, the fellow behind London’s North Sea Clothing and the resurrection of the Submariner Jumper. I discovered this particular item on a recent visit to 14 Earlham Street, a vintage store just off Cambridge Circus, and have had a [...]
• Where The Brace Buttons Should Be
  I recently received my first braced suit. That is, one designed to be worn with braces, featuring a high waist and fish-tail back. When I first wore the suit it seemed that the front two pairs of buttons were a little too far round to the side. They were more on my hip than under my [...]